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Council reviews annexation, two rezoning requests for Grassy Creek and Walden Avenue parcels
Summary
The Spruce Pine council heard planning board recommendations on a voluntary annexation and C-3 rezoning for a 5.896-acre Grassy Creek parcel and a separate C-1 rezoning for a 0.233-acre former eye clinic on Walden Avenue; council discussed statutory findings but no final vote is recorded in the transcript.
The Spruce Pine Town Council reviewed planning board recommendations for two land-use petitions: a voluntary annexation with a request to rezone PIN 07980049-2437 to C-3 (about 5.896 acres in Grassy Creek) and a separate rezoning for PIN 0890-14-22-5529 (about 0.233 acres) on Walden Avenue from R-2 to C-1.
Town manager/planner (speaker 3) told the council the Grassy Creek applicant (parcel 2437) applied for voluntary annexation and is requesting water and sewer as part of that annexation; planning recommended approval with no conditions. For the Walden Avenue site — described as a former eye doctor building next to Fairground Apartments — the planner said the property has historically been commercial and that C-1 is consistent with adjoining commercial uses.
The council opened public hearings on both ordinances (ordinance 2026.010 for the Grassy Creek annexation and ordinance 2026.012 for the Walden Avenue zoning amendment). No members of the public spoke in favor or opposition to the Grassy Creek hearing and the council closed that hearing. Speaker 2 noted a late amendment was added to include a plan-consistency statement referencing "NCGS 150D section 605a" and outlined the statutory factors the council must consider when making findings of reasonableness and plan consistency.
Council members discussed the sequence of actions (annexation first, then rezoning) and whether the rezoning was reasonable given prior commercial use. One council member (speaker 6) said the C-1 rezoning "seems to be" appropriate because the building had commercial use since it was built and neighboring parcels are commercial.
The transcript includes a discussion of a motion to approve both the annexation and the zone change but does not record a formal mover, seconder, or vote tally. Because the transcript does not include a final recorded vote, the council's formal outcome is not specified in the record provided.
Next steps: the council discussion indicates staff will insert the required statutory consistency and reasonableness statements in the ordinance language prior to any approval action; the transcript ends before a recorded vote or formal adoption is documented.
